"It's not so you can order a baguette in a boulangerie. It's so that you can understand that other people have different ...

The U of I’s Department of French and Italian hosted the first “FrancoFun” kids event on Thursday, which highlighted the ...

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is looking to streamline the route to teach French immersion with a new master's degree and concentration. And the school is one step closer to approval. The ...

While students bring energy and aspiration in French education, teachers and school leaders provide a longer view of how ...

Most Louisianans no longer speak French but more and more schools in the state are teaching it. One small school, southwest of New Orleans, is immersing students in the state's local dialects.

A sign hangs in the back of French teacher Susan Norvich’s classroom at Elm Place Middle School in Highland Park. The English translation of the French sign is “Patience, Love, Humor.” “You have to ...

“I had studied French in junior high, high school and college and did a year abroad, but 10 years of living in Paris really made fluency possible for me,” Potel said. Potel eventually returned to the ...

NEW ORLEANS — The number of French speakers in Louisiana has fallen over the decades. Between 1921 to 1974, the Louisiana Constitution banned French as the primary language taught in public schools, ...

After choosing to raise her children in French, her second language, Michelle Bruni has shared her journey with over 287,000 ...